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THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL.

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THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL. ."IT is finished: the fugitive slave law is written, and Rued, and sealed the duty of the citizens of this republic imperatively prescribed and fenced rbund by pains ,nd penalties. Representatives, Senators, and President, ave united in .the deed of treason to freedom, to humanity, to God. th Legislation has broken down out doors, and desecrated x Privacy of our homes. Love is outlawed flrota the hodse- » f of the American freeman. Charity must henceforth be "S'tive with the weary fainting beggars whom we are not fc '^elter or feed. The issue has come at last between the .thority of Almighty God, and the dictation of the slave- rers and their abettors. now let every man of conscience ask himself, "at is my duty in this crisis?*' The martyr age of the j**ted States is about to return again. Humanity and 2^fvolence, and all the virtues that come from the spirit of are about to be arranged in these United Slates, before to r of force once more, and will for a time be consigned «|e dangenu and the tomb. Christ is again to be crucified jbis disciples, and Christianity—the pure word of eternal °nce more to be preached from the dungeon. *be morning of American freedom has grown dark, and jji Opening in gloom and he who would demean himself 8 true man, in its shadowy hours, must prepare to stand l9 face with trial, and to shake hands with suffering. OnAcience and the laws of God are now all that the freemen Hio 1 e ^"i'ed States can rely upon for support in their ^•"Al conflict with the demon of slavery. The law of parch- is against them pains and penalties* and all the th»"ery of corporate interests, threaten to overwhelm *nrt v 'f they dare to obey the dictates of conscientious duty, \irten P't} t0 *he wail of suffering humanity. W» V dec,are> in 'he face of the God-defying authors of this OJJimis slave-catching bill, and of the traitors who have tlj V endorsed it, that we firmly believe and are satisfied i0rK" W'H be pleasing in the sight of God to do wlint it l('s us to do and that it will cover with eternal disgrace °ever would be so utterly lost to honour, truth, and <W*' obey one of its denomiaca) propositions. W e | fine.0t (lllail before this act, fenced round with chains and prison bars although it be. The man who seeks «h^i?°°r ,lungry» shall be fed if he is weary, he shall be to an<^ if 'he slave-catcher shall cross our threshold him from our fireside, and thus sully the sanctity of «ur altar, he shall be4ppposed by all the means that t^. «Ln^h and ingenuity can devise, and to the full extent 8tianity will allow. are not the times for vacillation and indecision of f0 "re those amongst us who are fainting before the array tlfS which treason has supplied, and slavery disciplined; >ve *e are others who are timidly asking, "What shall All th°'r ^'e 'cnow <mr duty, and shall do it in the face of T! .ms that contravene the laws of our God. iiWjJ™1? the question; Shall men, legislating under the th he obeyed or shall the pure, the t e omnipotent God? The issue of this question we .conscience. The consequences threatenen for per1- •Aore T^ience to God and conscience, we do not regard any ? as the contemptible subterfuges of cowards, to C n unstable and timid of soul. ?n £ re« has made the law. We claim the right te *Qnl right which freedom preserves to every individual ori«hta» havin<? iudged» we claim the right to disobey it— Suwranteed to us br a higher lav than even the ''tution.—Afoss. Spy.

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